113 Reade Street

also 107 West Broadway | Tribeca | built 1968

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1860
St. Peter's Church of Westchester leases the corner lot, and a liquor merchant moves in
The lot was one of five in the 'Church Farm' that Trinity Church granted in 1811 to St. Peter's Church of Westchester Square in the Bronx. St. Peter's leased it in 1860 to the tailor Joseph Hanson, who agreed to replace the small Federal-era houses with a masonry store. After the new building went up, Hanson leased it in 1863 to Michael Purcell, a liquor merchant who later opened a second shop at 147 West Broadway.
“In 1860 St. Peter's entered into a lease with tailor Joseph Hanson in which Hanson agreed to replace the small Federal-era houses on the lot…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1968
A four-story store is cut down to two stories, and a coffee-cup sign marks the corner
In 1967-68 the four-story store and loft on the corner of Reade Street and West Broadway was reduced to two stories, with some exterior walls rebuilt and the front faced in glazed brick. Earlier tenants had included restaurants, a barbershop, engravers, shoe and leather merchants, and cigar dealers. The ground floor became home to Bell-Bates & Company, sellers of tea, coffee and natural foods, whose coffee-cup-shaped sign hangs from the corner.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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